India's Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia

The book discusses India's evolving deterrent force posturing in South Asia underthe conceptual essentials of nuclear revolution when it comes to variouscombinations of conventional and nuclear forces development and the strategicimplications it intentionally or unintentionally poses for the South Asian region.The book talks about how the contemporary restructuring of India's deterrentforce posture affects India's nuclear strategy, in general, and how this in turncould affect the policies of its adversaries: China and Pakistan, in particular. Authors discuss the motivations of such posturing that broadly covers India'srestructuring of its Nuclear Draft Doctrine (DND), the ballistic missile developmentprogram, including that of its Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, and thepossibility of conflicts between China-India and India-Pakistan, given theirtransforming strategic force postures and their recurring adversarial behavioragainst each other in the Southern Asian region.